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PADDLEFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: paddlefishes   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout

Synonyms:

duckbill; paddlefish; Polyodon spathula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("paddlefish" is a kind of...):

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Holonyms ("paddlefish" is a member of...):

genus Polyodon; Polyodon (type genus of the Polyodontidae)

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